Archive for April, 2008
I posted a few months ago about pronouns (though am still wondering if anyone really cares). If you would like to see us cease these kind of posts, please feel free to let Randy, Rob or myself know.
Catch that? Surely you did. Sadly it happens all the time. Just today I was listening to Sean [...]
This is certainly a neglected sense in my life and perhaps in yours as well. Proverbs 15:33a says, “The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom…” and 2 Corinthians 7:1 says, “Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear [...]
As seen in Investor’s Business Daily:
Wright Moves On Up
INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted 3/31/2008
Election ‘08: What could be worse than an Afro-Marxist preacher exhorting thousands of blacks to hate whites and swear off their middle-class materialism? One who does the exact opposite.
Barack Obama had hoped
I’m thinking about a new name. Is Evangelical still worthy of our use? I wonder. So, what about “Christian?
There is nothing wrong with “Christian,” of course. Let’s see: Billy Graham, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Hillary and Bill and I use that title.
So, how about Evangelical? There is John Piper, RC Sproul, Joel Osteen, Pat Robertson and [...]
The following must have been designed by a woman. But I am wondering: do they really think we couldn’t pull this off?
The Next Survivor Series…
Rick Phillips has provided some pastoral advice on Sabbath-keeping aver at Reformation 21. This pastor’s letter is very well worth your read.
He writes
The Fourth Commandment says that on the Lord’s Day “you shall not do any work” (Ex. 20:10). This means that each of us should rest from whatever is our typical work. Students should [...]
Jordan Ballor at the Acton Institute wrote a helpful piece on the subject. He writes in part
In the post-industrial Information age, Christians remain at the forefront of social and cultural formation. In the context of the developments at the dawn of the third millennium, the engagement of church and culture has taken on a new [...]
David Wells’ newest book by the same title has hit the bookstores. I can’t wait to get a copy. Wells is so insightful and such a good writer. Here are a few snippets.
“The key to the future is not the capitulation that we see in both the marketers and the emergents. It is courage. The [...]
Are we losing them? Gage Browning believes we might be. I think Gage is right.
First, the PCA will deal with an overture this summer at General Assembly asking for a study committee to deal with the ordination of women to the office of deacon. You can read the overture here. I do hope and pray [...]
How are we as individual Christians and local churches to respond to the poor? Is there a distinction to be made between the role of the local church and the individual Christian on this important subject?
This is an important subject and one on which Christians do not all agree. In my opinion, the statement below [...]
We are pleased to add Dr. Sean Lucas’ blog to the blogroll. Dr. Lucas is the Chief Academic Officer and Associate Professor of Church History at Covenant Theological Seminary, St. Louis. He is also now a contributor to the Reformation 21 blog.
Here is a recent sample from Dr. Lucas’ blog as he quotes Horatius Bonar
Many [...]
To piggyback on the Al Mohler post, here are some links to resources which provide help in reaching Roman Catholics with the gospel.
Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry
Proclaiming the Gospel
I ran across this t-shirt and the abort73 website over at The Rebelution. By the way, The Rebelution is a site and blog where young people will be challenged to live for Christ like no other youth oriented site I know of.
Here is what abort73 stands for
Quoted in Baptist Press:
“The Roman Catholic Church believes that evangelicals are in spiritual danger for obstinately and disobediently excluding ourselves from submission to its universal claims and its papacy,” Mohler wrote. “Evangelicals are concerned that Catholics are in spiritual danger for their submission to these very claims. We both understand what is at stake.
“The divide [...]
The Together for the Gospel lineup:
Session I Ligon Duncan - Sound Doctrine – Essential to Faithful Pastoral Ministry (Talks about Scot McKnight)
Session II Thabiti Anyabwile - Bearing the Image: Identity, the Work of Christ, and the Church
Session III John MacArthur - The Sinner Neither Able Nor Willing: The Doctrine of Absolute Inability (Talks about [...]
Yeah, you. You know who you are. You are the people out there who do not believe in Darwinian evolution.
Ben Stein’s new movie Expelled opens today nationwide and looks pretty promising as it exposes the bias and intolerance of liberals in this country, especially in academia. Brent Bozell, a columnist at Townhall.com wrote
Ben Stein’s extraordinary presentation [...]
Lig Duncan, Thabiti Anyabwile, RC Sproul, John MacArthur, Mark Dever, CJ Mahaney, Al Mohler. All in one place.
The Together for the Gospel 2008 conference is going on right now. Tim Challies is live blogging from the conference and the sessions are superb. You need to look in on this outstanding conference!
My dad died a year ago, April 15th, 2007. My sisters and I put the following in the local newspaper for the April 17th edition.
God gave you many years on earth,
you lived them rich and full;
You touched so many lives, we know,
and gave yourself away.
Then when He called you home, we knew,
Your work on earth [...]
I had the wonderful privilege to visit in Scotland in 2003 and 2004 doing mission/evangelistic work. Scotland is a beautiful country with many warm and friendly people.
In 2004, St. Peter’s Free Church in Dundee was one of our stops. We spent a couple of days in Dundee and helped St. Peter’s do some canvassing for [...]
We continue with Dick Lucas’ sermons on Acts 17:16-34. The first sermon may be found here.
This sermon is titled Preaching to Pagans-The Glorious Theme and includes the following quotes:
Paul did not preach about social ethics or
the secret of a happy life. These things have their
place but, particularly when preaching to non-
Christians, they are not fundamental. [...]
John MacArthur will be preaching in St. Louis on April 17th. St. Louis is one of his stops around the country as he speaks about his new book A Tale of Two Sons. Click here to find out details about when and where in St. Louis he will be preaching.
Nathan Pitchford writes over at Reformation Theology. He has put forth five reasons why there appears to be a growing interest in Calvinism and Reformed Theology among younger evangelicals. I will list his main points here, but you should click over there and read his reasoning.
1. Dissatisfaction with the theology and religious
environment of our parents.
2. [...]
Dick Lucas is Rector Emeritus of St Helen’s Church, Bishopsgate in London and the first chairman of the Proclamation Trust. The vision of the Proclamation Trust is to encourage ministry that seeks above all to expound the Bible as God’s Word for today.
The Trust has made some of Dr. Lucas’ sermons available online recently. Here [...]
Dr. Wayne Grudem of The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood issued a challenge which, to my knowledge, is yet unanswered. Just in case you have not seen the challenge and want a shot at it, we have reproduced it for you below.
An Open Letter to Egalitarians: Six Questions That Have Never Been Satisfactorily Answered
Wayne [...]
We have posted about the emerging church before (on reformation universalis) and particularly about the book Why We’re Not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be) by Keven DeYoung and Ted Kluck.
Have a little fun and maybe learn something from the following quote from the book.
After reading nearly five thousand pages of emerging-church literature, I [...]
John Piper recently delivered a very moving message at the Don’t Waste Your Life College Event in California.
It’s very clear that Piper has a special burden for challenging young people (i.e. late high school and college age students) to spend themselves sacrificially for the Gospel. Anyone who has read or watched (the preferred approach for [...]
Seriously. The NY Times ran an article recently titled Can Sips at Home Prevent Binges? In the article the writer says,
…I would like to teach my sons — 16 and 17 — that wine is a wonderful part of a meal. I want to teach them to enjoy it while also drumming it into them [...]
Please pray for a little one in our church named Kayden. Kayden is almost three years old. A tumor was discovered yesterday (April 1) on one of his kidneys. The doctors say it is a large and fast growing. Surgery is planned today to remove the kidney and the tumor. At that time tests will [...]
